Solsbury Hill

"Solsbury Hill" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel, about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England. Gabriel wrote the song after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead singer since its inception, explaining the reasons behind his departure. Despite the eloquence and purity of the vision atop Solsbury Hill, there may be some ambivalence of being free or going solo: "And liberty she pirouette when I think that I am free." It was his debut single. The single was a Top 20 hit in the UK and reached the Top 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.

It has been used in a number of movies, for example in the soundtracks of the 2001 film Vanilla Sky, and the 2004 film In Good Company. The song has been covered by many artists, including moe,. Dave Matthews, Erasure, Sarah McLachlan, Saga, and Justin Hines, among others.

The song uses a 7/4 time signature for the vast majority of the song. The last two measures of each chorus are in 4/4.

Lonesome Day

"Lonesome Day" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and initially performed by Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was the opening track of his 2002 album The Rising It was released as a single as the follow-up to the title track on December 2, 2002 and reached #36 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, #39 in the UK, and #47 in Sweden.

Where's My Mind?

"Where Is My Mind?" is a song by the American Alternative Rock band Pixies. It is the seventh track on their 1988 album Surfer Rosa. The song was written by frontman Black Francis while he attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, inspired by his experiences scuba diving in the Caribbean. He later said he had "this very small fish trying to chase me. I don't know why — I don't know too much about fish behavior."

Home for the hols

This week i helped out Amy Rayner in the studio for her E.P that she's going to be bringing out when we eventually go on a mini tour around Fife and other places in Scotland. I'll hopefully use the recordings in my graded unit if i get a hold of them in time but if not, here's a cheeky picture to show that i'm not lying out my..... And hopefully we'll be back in the studio soon to finish off the rest of her songs and then get on the road and start spreading the love. I miss playing live and i'm hopping in the future that i'll get to do it more often with my outside college band. So far i have 3(ish) bands, and i think i'm going to have to be quite selfish if i see more potential or more movement and development in one band. If that happens, i'll put 100% commitment into that one band and leave the other 2. Selfish i know, but i feel i have to be if i want to get where i want to be band wise.

Also in this week i started my 2nd study piano lesson which so far wasn't that great because it was just sitting around talking about what we wanted to learn. It makes sense that we did that but i would've liked to at least play a few notes and find out really what i knew and what i wanted to get out of the class. But i guess we'll see why happens after the Easter Holidays.

Speaking of Easter Holidays. I've still got to figure out what i'm going to write about in my band class. We've been given the task to write a song about something that's happening in the World now or something that happened in the past. So the one thing that's in my head is WW2 or to be more specific, D Day, Don't ask me why because i don't exactly know myself but hopefully i'll get a flash of inspiration sometime in the holidays and write something worthy enough.